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Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing

Lavender Fields - Care Home with Nursing is a care home with nursing in Hitchin, run by Leonard Cheshire Disability. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in March 2022 (last checked 26 March 2022). It has 10 beds. It is registered to support older people, people with a physical disability, people with a learning disability or autism and younger adults.

  • Care home with nursing

No 1 Lavender Fields, Lucas Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 2JB

What CQC says

Overall rating

Requires improvementrated 4 years ago (26 March 2022)

The service is not performing as well as it should.

Last checked by CQC: 26 March 2022.

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The five key questions

CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.

  • Is it safe?

    Goodrated 4 years ago (26 March 2022)
  • Is it effective?

    Requires improvementrated 4 years ago (26 March 2022)
  • Is it caring?

    Goodrated 7 years ago (16 November 2018)
  • Is it responsive to people’s needs?

    Goodrated 7 years ago (16 November 2018)
  • Is it well-led?

    Requires improvementrated 4 years ago (26 March 2022)

Not sure what the ratings mean? Read how CQC ratings work.

Understanding this rating

Plain facts about how CQC rates and inspects services, as CQC describes them. This is not advice and not a rating of ours.

This rating is from March 2022. That is more than 2 years ago. A service can change a lot in that time, for better or worse. CQC decides when to inspect again.

What CQC looks at

  • Effective: Requires improvement

    CQC checks whether care gets good results for people and follows good practice. It looks at how needs are assessed, food and drink, working with GPs and other services, and asking people for their consent.

    Questions you could ask

    • How do you find out what someone needs before their care starts?
    • How do you work with GPs, nurses and other services?
    • How do you make sure people get enough to eat and drink?
  • Well-led: Requires improvement

    CQC checks how well the service is run. It looks at the managers and leaders, the culture, how the service checks and improves its own quality, and whether staff feel able to speak up.

    Questions you could ask

    • Who is the registered manager, and how can families contact them?
    • How do you check the quality of care yourselves?
    • How can staff raise worries, and how are they supported when they do?

Questions you could ask

  • What has changed since the last inspection?

How often CQC looks again

There is no fixed timetable. CQC decides when to look at a service again. It uses the information it holds about the service and how much risk it sees. It may look sooner if it hears of concerns.

About this service

Type of care
Care home with nursing
Who it supports
Older people, Physical disability, Learning disability or autism, Younger adults
Number of beds
10
Nursing care
Yes, nurses are on hand
Registered since
12 January 2011
Local council area
Hertfordshire

Who runs it

Provider
Leonard Cheshire Disability
Brand
BRAND Leonard Cheshire Disability
Kind of provider
Company or organisation

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